Complete Guide: Installing lout on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "lout" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install lout on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                lout
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "lout" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall lout on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lout
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lout package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: lout
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 1568
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.39-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), lout-common (= 3.39-1)
Suggests: lout-doc, postscript-viewer, psutils, pdf-viewer
Filename: pool/universe/l/lout/lout_3.39-1_amd64.deb
Size: 318426
MD5sum: c0d937702e058d124aa8d537108ef362
SHA1: 07eef1b5776ae06d3d99bd3224d03dc646873947
SHA256: 4aa0ee8c47c8549a508d4232cda176d91b9ab3ff15cf55ffb5d3d6bf366e1c79
Description-en: Typesetting system, an alternative to (La)TeX
Lout is a document formatting system similar in style to LaTeX, i.e.
it works with mark-up files - plain text files containing commands to
control the formatting.
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Lout offers a very full range of features, including
* PostScript, PDF, and plain text output
* optimal paragraph and page breaking
* automatic hyphenation
* PostScript EPS file inclusion and generation
* equation formatting, tables, diagrams
* rotation and scaling
* sorted indexes, bibliographic databases
* running headers and odd-even pages, automatic cross referencing
* multilingual documents including hyphenation (most European languages are
supported, including Russian),
* formatting of C/C++ programs.
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Lout may be extended by writing definitions which are much simpler than
the equivalent troff or TeX macros.
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Lout has several advantages over (La)TeX. It is much smaller, and it is
much easier to understand how to do things in Lout (including writing
definitions) than in TeX or LaTeX. Lout's PostScript output is very small
and clean.
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However, it is much less widely used than (La)TeX, so there are
fewer add-on definition packages for Lout than for (La)TeX and fewer
local experts around to ask about problems. You are unlikely to
find many Lout documents floating around the 'net.
Description-md5: 640a8df8f02c3b108b27143df3b7ae06
Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu